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Hi Barbara,
Yes, you can say that.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Bella,
Yes, you’re not alone in your concern. In fact, everyone comes with a certain baggage to the wisdom of Kabbalah. That’s normal and fine. We just need to keep going, to keep placing ourselves under the influence of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it’ll sort everything out.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi John,
1. By religion we mean the customs and culture of a group of people. As for our beliefs in a certain deity, a person in spiritual attainment reveals the Creator in practice, in their lives, so there is no room for beliefs.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/10/religions-place-in-our-lives/
2. Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 commandments as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
But if a person does want to perform these actions physically in our world as well, Kabbalah is not against that, but encourages doing so with the right intention. This follows the saying that “a commandment without an intention, is like a body without a soul”.
So if a person is Jewish and this is part of their customs, they can continue to carry these things out physically if they want. But the most important thing is to carry these things out internally, on the level of our desires.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Bella,
Reaching spirituality means correcting our egoistic nature. This correction goes “from light to heavy”. The first generations to start this work were working with the smallest levels of egoism, so it was easier for them to correct it and reach spiritual attainment. We on the other hand are working with the biggest levels of egoism, so it’s harder for us.
As for evidence of this, you can turn on the news and see for yourself the level of egoism of our generation. Despite all our resources and advancements in technology, there are still wars in the world. Divorce is at an all time high. We’re becoming more advanced yet more distanced and alienated from each other. These are all signs of a growing ego.
Keep in mind that it’s not bad that the ego grew to such a high level, these are still signs of advancement. The bigger the ego, the bigger the spiritual level that we can attain when we correct it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Bella,
Reaching spirituality means correcting our egoistic nature. This correction goes “from light to heavy”. The first generations to start this work were working with the smallest levels of egoism, so it was easier for them to correct it and reach spiritual attainment. We on the other hand are working with the biggest levels of egoism, so it’s harder for us.
As for evidence of this, you can turn on the news and see for yourself the level of egoism of our generation. Despite all our resources and advancements in technology, there are still wars in the world. Divorce is at an all time high. We’re becoming more advanced yet more distanced and alienated from each other. These are all signs of a growing ego.
Keep in mind that it’s not bad that the ego grew to such a high level, these are still signs of advancement. The bigger the ego, the bigger the spiritual level that we can attain when we correct it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
